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Historical Event(s)
– Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
– The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
– A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
– The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
– William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
– The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
– U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
– The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
– Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
– James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
– Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)
– Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
– Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
– Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
– Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
– Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
– Maria Sophie of Bavaria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925)
– King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)